<![CDATA["AI is writing 90% of our code" sounds impressive before you realize that AI-generated code is orders of magnitude more verbose &amp; less efficient than code written by a professional software engineer.]]>"AI is writing 90% of our code" sounds impressive before you realize that AI-generated code is orders of magnitude more verbose & less efficient than code written by a professional software engineer.

But "we ship 9 lines of fluff for each line of code that does something" doesn't sound as impressive.

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What they mean is that 90% of their code is now unmaintainable.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://metalhead.club/users/SteveClough/statuses/116334611851006103https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://metalhead.club/users/SteveClough/statuses/116334611851006103Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:21:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "AI is writing 90% of our code" sounds impressive before you realize that AI-generated code is orders of magnitude more verbose &amp; less efficient than code written by a professional software engineer. on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:40:40 GMT]]>@PavelASamsonov Reminds me how I suggested once to increase code coverage by adding thousands of lines of fully covered NOP code 😆

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/finestructure/statuses/116334450441967348https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/finestructure/statuses/116334450441967348Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:40:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "AI is writing 90% of our code" sounds impressive before you realize that AI-generated code is orders of magnitude more verbose &amp; less efficient than code written by a professional software engineer. on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:27:53 GMT]]>@PavelASamsonov If the vibecoded implementations were reliably correct - but they are not; while trying to understand better what I criticise, I am trying out GenAI in software engineering in isolated use cases and environments, but the failure modes range from hilarious to insidious.

Many still follow these output-related (quantity) metrics rather than outcome-related ones (quality).

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/mhartle/statuses/116334400232597154https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/mhartle/statuses/116334400232597154Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:27:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "AI is writing 90% of our code" sounds impressive before you realize that AI-generated code is orders of magnitude more verbose &amp; less efficient than code written by a professional software engineer. on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:27:14 GMT]]>@PavelASamsonov True! My partner is an IT professional and spends more time throwing away (other people's) code than writing new one. Having concise and clear code shows that you really know your trade, and it's ridiculous that even big tech companies are now doing so much AI-coding.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://akademienl.social/users/mob/statuses/116333925807263830https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://akademienl.social/users/mob/statuses/116333925807263830Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:27:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "AI is writing 90% of our code" sounds impressive before you realize that AI-generated code is orders of magnitude more verbose &amp; less efficient than code written by a professional software engineer. on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:25:43 GMT]]>@PavelASamsonov
In my experience, professional software engineers limited prayers to their comments rather than as executable code.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://federate.social/users/Roundtrip/statuses/116331324617199706https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://federate.social/users/Roundtrip/statuses/116331324617199706Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:25:43 GMT